CHAPTER I
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER VIII
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CONVERSATION
What to Say and How to Say It
CONVERSATION
What to Say and How to Say It
BY
MARY GREER CONKLIN
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1912
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
All rights reserved for all countries
Conversation, by Mary Greer Conklin
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[Printed in the United States of America]
Published November, 1912
IN LOVING MEMORY
TO
A. E. C.
WHOSE DELIGHTFUL CONVERSATION STIMULATED MY YOUTH
AND IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THEIR SEVERE CRITICISM AND FRIENDLY AID
TO
CHARLES TOWNSEND COPELAND
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AT HARVARD COLLEGE
AND
FRANK WILSON CHENEY HERSEY
INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH AT HARVARD COLLEGE
PREFACE
"The best book that was ever written upon good breeding," said Dr. Johnson to Boswell, "the best book, I tell
you, Il Cortegiano by Castiglione, grew up at the little court of Urbino, and you should read it." Il Cortegiano
was first published by the Aldine Press at Venice, in 1528. Before the close of the century more than one
hundred editions saw the light; Fre